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[Kea321]

Hi All,

I am using the CMSEL command to select a named selection but the named selection cannot be defined according to the Post output information. Is there an alternative command to use in post processing APDL command snippets. Please see photos attached of situation.

All help greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

[Govindan Nagappan]

Check the details of named selection in Mechanical and make sure "send to solver" is set to yes before solving the model
If you are executing commands on a solved model, you may need the database file to select entities. See if there is a database file saved. Usually file name is file.db
YOu can use commands similar to this
resume,file,db !open database file named file.db
/post1
file,file,rst !select result file named file.rst
Then issue the cmsel command
From "analysis settings"-> analysis data management, you can set "Save MAPDL db" to "yes". Then solve the model
ALso, you can click on "Solution" and select "worksheet" in the toolbar. You can check the solver components here. There should be a list that shows all components in the input file

[Kea321]

Thank you gnagapp!